Art curator
London-based curator, writer and broadcaster visits Augusta University to discuss her BBC film, ‘Treasures of Indus’
London-based curator, writer and broadcaster Sona Datta, PhD, will be a visiting scholar at Augusta University this week and participate in a free screening of the first series of her BBC film “Treasures of the Indus: Pakistan Unveiled” on Tuesday, Sept. 26 at 5 p.m. at the Maxwell Theatre on the Summerville Campus.
As an expert in South Asian heritage, Datta was invited to Augusta University by the Morris Eminent Scholar in Art Anila Quayyum Agha. Following the free film screening of “Treasures of the Indus: Pakistan Unveiled,” Agha and Matthew Buzzell, an award-winning filmmaker and professor in the Department of Art and Design at Augusta University, will host a Q & A with Datta.
“Dr. Datta was the head of South Asian art at the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts. There she extended the museum’s world-renowned 20th-century modernist photography and painting collections to include the best contemporary art referencing South Asia,” Agha said. “The Essex Museum was the first museum to put my work on permanent display, and it’s been fully up since 2016 in a designated room. That was a big deal for me.”
As we close 2024 and read all the year-end wrap-ups of art, music, books, movies, and films, we wondered what would Denver Art Museum curators include on their lists of top arts and culture moments of the year?
Check out the roundup below from five of our curators (arranged in alphabetical order), which spans art and artists across multiple genres from Denver to Dakar.
Darrin Alfred, Curator of Architecture and Design
1. The Denver Art Museum’s Biophilia: Nature Reimagined and the Denver Botanic Gardens’ River’s Voice: Textiles by Alexandra Kehayoglou – Two significant exhibitions this summer highlighted humanity’s bond with nature. At the DAM, Biophilia: Nature Reimagined invited visitors to reconnect with nature through architecture, art, and design, featuring Alexandra Kehayoglou’s newly acquired Bajío (2024), a hand-tufted wool rug reflecting cultural heritage and memory. Meanwhile, the Denver Botanic Gardens’ River’s Voice presented Kehayoglou’s immersive large-scale textiles, creating a culturally rich moment that bridged themes of ecology, design, and identity.
Read more: https://www.denverartmuseum.org/en/blog/dam-curators-top-arts-moments-2024
Dame Rosalind Savill, who was the director of one of the UK’s major art collections for nearly 20 years, has died age 73.
The former Wallace Collection director and art historian died on Friday following a short illness, her family confirmed to the PA news agency.
She began her career as an assistant in the ceramics department of London’s Victoria And Albert Museum, before moving to the Wallace Collection.
Dame Rosalind was first appointed as an assistant in 1974 and became an assistant director of the London fine art attraction in 1978.
On Saturday 16 November 2024 a new exhibition opened in the Gregynog Gallery at the National Library of Wales, which combines his substantial collection with items from the National Art Collection at the National Library of Wales for the first time in order to tell this important story.
Peter Lord’s collection of Welsh art and artefacts, many of which are on public display for the first time, looks at the allegation made by Griffith in 1950, and upheld by many others afterwards. His belief is that pictures should be valued not only visually but for what they say about the story of the nation.
The exhibition is a unique opportunity to view and enjoy over 250 works of art of national significance. With a central narrative running throughout, the story starts with the visual world of the gentry, middle classes and common people and moves on to various depictions of Welsh identities. Through this, it reveals the richness of Wales’ visual culture as well as Wales’ social and political history.
Read more: https://www.artdependence.com/articles/there-s-no-welsh-art-a-new-exhibition-challenges-the-myth/
